KR100467727B1 - Hand-held Terminal capable of Checking Human Health - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a portable terminal having a function of checking a daily exercise amount, calories burned, and an exercise amount necessary to consume ingested food of a user carrying the portable terminal. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable terminal comprising: means for detecting an exercise amount of a user carrying the terminal, a calories burned data storage unit for storing a look-up table of data on calories burned by each exercise, types of various foods, A food calorie data storage unit for storing a look-up table of data on calorie amounts of foods, the calorie data storage unit is inquired to calculate calories burned according to the exercise amount of the user, and the food calorie data storage unit is inquired by the user It includes a microprocessor for calculating the amount of exercise required to consume calories of food and a display unit for displaying the amount of calories consumed according to the exercise amount of the user and the amount of exercise necessary to consume the calories of the intake of food.

Description

Handheld terminal capable of health check function and health check method using a mobile terminal {Hand-held Terminal capable of Checking Human Health}

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal having a function of checking health, and more particularly, a function of checking an exercise amount of a user carrying the mobile terminal and an amount of exercise required to digest calories and ingested foods according to the exercise. It relates to a portable terminal having and a health check method using the portable terminal.

With the rapid development of computer, electronic and communication technologies, various wireless communication services using a wireless telecommiunication network have been provided. The most basic wireless communication service is a wireless voice call service that provides a voice call wirelessly between users of a mobile communication terminal regardless of time and place. Wireless Internet services have emerged that provide communication services similar to those provided by the Internet through a wireless communication network. Therefore, the subscribers of the mobile communication service can freely move and talk with the other party anytime and anywhere using the wireless communication service, and also have information necessary for life, such as news, weather, sports, securities, and exchange rates, through the wireless Internet service. , Traffic information, etc. may be provided in various forms such as text, voice, and image. As such, mobile phones are becoming one of the essentials that many people carry anywhere anytime.

However, although the user carries the mobile communication terminal as a necessity, there is not much time actually spent to use voice call or wireless internet with the other party, and most of the time is in the standby state.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for a method that can be usefully used in the mobile terminal in the standby state, which takes up most of the time.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal capable of checking the health of a user carrying a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is a mobile terminal having a function of checking the amount of exercise and calories consumed according to the exercise and the amount of exercise required to consume the food consumed by the user carrying the mobile communication terminal and a health check method using the portable terminal To provide.

1 is a block diagram of a portable terminal having a health check function according to the present invention;

FIG. 2A is a diagram illustrating a lookup table for the amount of exercise and calories burned stored in the calories burned data storage unit illustrated in FIG. 1;

2B is a view illustrating a lookup table for calories of food stored in the food calorie data storage unit illustrated in FIG. 1;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of checking the health of a user in a mobile terminal according to the present invention;

4A and 4E are screens for checking the amount of exercise and calories burned by a user in a mobile terminal according to the present invention;

5a to 5b is a screen for checking the amount of food and exercise taken by the user in the mobile terminal according to the present invention,

6A and 6B illustrate screens for checking a biorhythm of a user in a portable terminal according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: mobile terminal 102: program memory

104: data storage unit 106: key input unit

108: LCD display 110: speaker

112: microphone 114: codec

116: microprocessor 118: RF transmitter

120: RF receiver 122: duplexer

124: antenna 126: walk calculation unit

128: exercise time calculator 130: calorie data storage unit

132: food calorie data storage unit 134: biorhythm provider

A terminal for checking the health of a user according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, the means for detecting the amount of exercise of the user carrying the terminal; A calories burned data storage unit for storing a look-up table of data on calories burned according to each exercise amount; A food calorie data storage unit for storing various kinds of foods and a look-up table of data on the calories of each food; A microprocessor configured to query the consumed calorie data storage to calculate consumed calories according to the amount of exercise of the user, and to calculate the amount of exercise required to consume calories of the food ingested by the user by querying the food calorie data storage; And a display unit for displaying the exercise amount of the user, the calories burned, the calories of the ingested food, and the amount of exercise required to consume the calories calculated by the microprocessor.

According to another embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for checking the user's exercise amount and calories used in the terminal comprising a walking calculator and exercise time calculation unit, (a) the terminal to the user Checking the exercise amount of the user in the portable state; (b) calculating calories burned for the exercise amount; And (c) displaying the checked exercise amount and the calculated calories burned on a screen of the terminal.

According to another embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for checking the amount of exercise required to consume the intake of food and the intake of food in a terminal including a walking calculator and exercise time calculation unit, (a) inputting one or more types of food ingested by the user; (b) summing and calculating calories for each food input; (c) calculating the amount of exercise of the exercise required to burn the calculated calories; And (d) displaying the calculated calories and the exercise amount on a screen of the terminal.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail as follows.

1 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a portable terminal having a health check function according to the present invention.

The mobile terminal 100 of the present invention includes a mobile phone for performing a voice call with each other through a wireless switching network (not shown) and for performing data communication through a wireless switching network by driving a WAP browser. Of course, in the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal 100 may also include a personal digital assistant (PDA) that a user can carry and carry, a hand-held computer such as a pocket computer, or the like. . The portable terminal 100 includes a program memory 102, a data storage unit 104, a key input unit 106, an LCD display unit 108, a speaker 110, a microphone 112, and a codec (coder-decoder). 114, microprocessor 116, RF transmitter 118, RF receiver 120, duplexer 122, antenna 124, walk calculator 126, exercise time calculator 128, calories burned data The storage unit 130, the food calorie data storage unit 132 and the biorhythm providing unit 134.

The program memory 102 stores programs that perform functions of the conventional portable terminal 100 and protocol software that processes messages transmitted and received with the network, and the data storage unit 104 operates programs of the portable terminal 100. At the time of execution, it functions as a data buffer and stores a phone number input to the key input unit 106.

The key input unit 106 includes a numeric key for inputting an incoming telephone number for a call with the other party, a character key for setting a ring tone or a character, and various function keys, and the LCD display unit 108 includes the portable terminal 100. Displays various operation states of.

A coder-decoder (CODEC) 114 is a digital signal processing processor that codes and decodes a voice signal, performs an equalization function to remove multipath noise, performs an audio related data processing function, and the like. The speaker 110 connected to the codec 114 outputs an audio signal output from the codec 114 as an audible sound, and the microphone 112 converts the user's voice input into an electrical signal, which is converted into a codec. Via 114 is provided to the microprocessor 116.

The antenna 124 transmits and receives a wireless signal, and the duplexer 122 separates a signal transmitted and received from a wireless communication network (not shown) through the antenna 124.

The RF transmitter 118 modulates a transmission signal provided from the microprocessor 116 into an RF signal and transmits the RF signal through the duplexer 122 and the antenna 124, and the RF receiver 120 transmits the antenna 124 and the duplexer 122. RF demodulated through the () and outputs to the microprocessor 116.

Meanwhile, the walk calculator 126 is a means for performing a function of so-called pedometer, and counts a detected vibration signal by detecting a vibration generated when a user carrying the mobile communication terminal 100 walks or runs. The number of vibrations counted by the foot calculator 126 is provided to the microprocessor 116 as the number of foot data of the user.

The exercise time calculation unit 128 internally counts the frequency generated through the crystal oscillator and the like, and counts the exercise time when the user performs jogging, running, jumping rope, and the like, and the exercise time counted by the exercise time calculation unit 128. Is provided to the microprocessor 116.

The calories burned data storage unit 130 stores a look-up table of data on calories burned by exercise such as walking, jogging, running, jumping rope, and the like, and food calorie data storage unit 132 stores It stores data on the types of foods and calories ingested by each food. The data stored in the calorie consumption data storage 130 and the food calorie data storage 132 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B.

The biorhythm provider 134 stores a program that provides a user's biorhythm as a graph or a chart. Biorhythm is an empirical rule that many biologists, psychologists, doctors, and epidemiologists have studied about the rhythm of the human body for a long time, and it is one of the hypotheses that predicts the body, mind, and head condition of people over time. . The biorhythm is mainly calculated based on the date of birth, and in general, three types of human rhythms, ie, intelligence, emotion, and body rhythm, are analyzed and displayed on the LCD display 108 in the form of graphs or charts.

The microprocessor 116 basically executes the health check function according to the present invention in addition to the processing and control functions for the phone call or data communication of the mobile terminal 100, in particular, the mobile phone. Health check function according to the present invention is a function of calculating the calories burned according to the amount of exercise performed by the user carrying the mobile terminal 100, such as walking, jogging, running, skipping rope, and consumes the calories of food ingested by the user Includes the ability to calculate the amount of exercise needed.

The amount of exercise by walking performed by the user can be obtained from the walking calculator 126 which detects vibrations generated when the user carrying the mobile terminal 100 walks or runs and calculates the number of detected vibrations as the number of walking. The amount of exercise due to running, jumping rope, etc. can be obtained by counting the time elapsed from the start of the exercise to the end of the exercise using the exercise time calculator 128.

The calories burned according to the exercise amount of the user may be calculated in the following manner with reference to the lookup table stored in the exercise calories burned data storage unit 130 illustrated in FIG. 2A.

For example, if you exercise on foot, it is known to consume about 300 kcal if it is about 10,000 (10,000) steps, and for exercise such as jogging, running, or skipping rope, exercise for 40 minutes, 30 minutes, and 20 minutes, respectively. When done, it is known to consume about 300 kcal. Therefore, the look-up table illustrated in FIG. 2A includes a diagram of the relationship between the type of exercise, the amount of exercise, and the calories burned based on the above-mentioned facts, and the microprocessor 116 refers to the look-up table above for walking, jogging, You can calculate the calories burned by running and skipping. Although the lookup table of FIG. 2A includes only basic data on the amount of exercise and calories burned, the amount of calories for each amount of exercise may be calculated proportionally with reference to the above-described basic data about the amount of exercise and calories burned.

For example, if the user walks 5,000 times, the microprocessor 116 calculates that the calories burned is 150 kcal with reference to the lookup table illustrated in FIG. 2A. In addition, when the user performs 10 minutes of jogging, running, skipping, and the like, respectively, the microprocessor 116 calculates 75 kcal, 100 kcal, and 150 kcal.

The number of walks and the exercise time counted by the walk calculator 126 and the workout time calculator 128 are provided to the microprocessor 116, which refers to the calories burned data storage 130. The calories burned according to the number of walking and the exercise time are calculated and the calories burned are presented to the user through the LCD display 108.

On the other hand, the function of calculating the amount of exercise required to consume the calories of food ingested by the user can be calculated in the following manner with reference to the lookup table stored in the food calorie data storage unit 132 illustrated in FIG.

Figure 2b illustrates a lookup table showing the food intake by the user and the calories for each food. For example, a cup of coffee consumed by a user is 5 kcal, a cup of cola is 70 kcal, and a cup of milk is 110 kcal. The microprocessor 116 uses the portable terminal 100 to look up the calories for the food input by the user by looking up the food calorie chart illustrated in FIG. 2B, and calculates the amount of exercise required to consume the calories.

For example, if the user ate a cup of cola and a piece of sandwich, the microprocessor 116 would refer to the food calorie chart illustrated in FIG. Calculate the total calories of foods eaten by 470 kcal. In addition, the amount of exercise through walking, jogging, running or jumping rope to consume 470 kcal is calculated as 15,666 steps, 62 minutes, 57 minutes, and 31 minutes with reference to the exercise amount and calorie chart of FIG. 2A.

The calorie value retrieved by the microprocessor 116 and the amount of exercise necessary to consume the calories are displayed on the LCD display 108 and recognized by the user.

The health check method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

First, the user inquires the menu screen by clicking the menu button of the mobile terminal 100 that he / she carries in order to check his / her health (S302).

4A shows a menu screen displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 100. The menu screen includes a 'voice call mode' used to make a voice call on the mobile terminal 100 and a 'health check' used for health check. Mode 'is displayed and the user is prompted to select one of the' voice call mode 'and the' health check mode '(S304).

When the user selects the 'voice call mode' on the menu screen of FIG. 4A, the process proceeds to step S306 to perform a voice call using the general mobile terminal 100. However, in the menu screen of FIG. 4A, when the user selects the 'health check mode', the process proceeds to step S308.

In step S308, as illustrated in FIG. 4B, '1. Momentum and calories burned ',' 2. Food and momentum 'and' 3. The check mode selection screen for selecting the 'Biorhythm' item is generated. 'One. The amount of exercise and calories burned 'item brings up the function to calculate the calories burned by the user walking, jogging, running, jumping rope, etc. '2. 'Food and exercise amount' item brings up the function to calculate the amount of exercise required to consume the calories of food ingested by the user. '3. Biorhythm 'item brings up the function of analyzing the user's biorhythm.

In step S308, the user selects' 1. When the amount of exercise and calories burned 'item is selected, the process proceeds to step S310 and' 2. If food and exercise amount 'item is selected, the process proceeds to step S318,' 3. Biorhythm 'item is selected, the flow proceeds to step S326.

In step S310, as illustrated in FIG. 4C, a '1. Walk ',' 2. Jogging ',' 3. Running ',' 4. An example of an exercise type menu screen for selecting an exercise type, such as a skipping rope, is illustrated. In this exercise type menu screen, a user selects an exercise to be executed for a health check.

When the user selects' 1. When the 'walking' item is selected, the microprocessor 116 calculates the amount of exercise according to the number of walkings of the user using the number of walkings provided from the walking calculating unit 126, and the user selects the 'walking' on the screen of the mobile terminal 100. 2. Jogging ',' 3. Running 'or' 4. When the user selects the item 'rope skipping', the microprocessor 116 uses the value provided from the exercise time calculator 128 to count the exercise time required to start and finish the jogging, running, or skipping exercise. Checks the amount of exercise of jogging, running or skipping rope (S312).

In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 4D, the screen of the mobile terminal 100 displays a prompt 410 indicating that the walk (or jogging, running, jumping rope) is started, and the walking (or jogging, running, jumping rope) is finished. An end button 420 is illustrated to notify when.

If it is determined that the user's walking (or jogging, running, jumping rope) is ended by selecting the end button 420 on the screen illustrated in FIG. 4D, the user's walking (or jogging, running) is executed by the microprocessor 116. , The amount of exercise due to skipping rope) and calories burned by the exercise (S314).

The amount of exercise and calories burned calculated by the microprocessor 116 are displayed on the LCD display 108. 4E illustrates a screen displaying the user's exercise amount and calories burned. In this screen, the user walks 5,000 steps by walking, and the calories burned are 150 kcal. If the exercise of jogging, running, and skipping rope, not walking, was performed for 30 minutes from 04: 20 to 04: 50, the screen of FIG. 4e shows the time and calories burned for jogging, running, and skipping rope for 30 minutes, 225 kcal, respectively. , 300 kcal, 450 kcal.

On the other hand, in the screen of Figure 4b '2. In step S318 where the food and exercise amount 'item is selected, the user selects the food intake. 5a shows various foods ingested by the user, such as coffee, cola, milk, cake, juice, biscuits, yogurt, ramen, gimbap, pizza, and the like. . . Etc. are listed, and the user selects the food ingested from these foods. In FIG. 5A, the foods are arranged in a scrolling manner, and thus, foods that are not visible due to the limitation of the screen size can be found by scrolling down the scrolling screen. Also, the user can name foods ingested in the search window 510 provided on the screen. You can also find food easily by typing.

The microprocessor 116 queries the food calorie data storage 132 and calculates calories for the food selected by the user (S320). For example, if a user ate a glass of cola and a piece of sandwich, the calorie ingested by the user is calculated as 470 kcal, which is the sum of 70 kcal of coke and 400 kcal of sandwich.

Next, the microprocessor 116 calculates the amount of exercise required to consume the calories ingested by the user (S322). For example, the amount of exercise for walking, jogging, running, and skipping rope to consume 470 kcal of calories consumed by a user is calculated to be 15,666 steps, 62 minutes, 57 minutes, and 31 minutes.

The calories burned by the exercise of walking, jogging, running, and skipping rope calculated by the microprocessor 116 are displayed on the LCD display 108 as illustrated in FIG. 5B, and the user knows the amount of exercise to be performed. (S324).

On the other hand, in the screen of Figure 4b '3. In step S326 in which the biorhythm 'item is selected, as illustrated in FIG. 6A, the date of birth required to provide the biorhythm of the user is input through the screen of the portable terminal 100.

Next, the microprocessor 116 displays the biorhythm of the user analyzed by the biorhythm provider 134 by providing the date of birth input from the user to the biorhythm provider 134 (S328). 6B illustrates a biorhythm of a user displayed on the LCD display 108 of the mobile terminal 100.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical spirit of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical spirit of the present invention but to explain, and the scope of the technical spirit of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the present invention should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

Therefore, according to the present invention described above, the user always carries a mobile phone or data communication while carrying the terminal and simultaneously checks his or her exercise amount and calories consumed by the exercise and the exercise amount necessary to consume the consumed food and intake food. can do.

Claims (17)

In a mobile terminal for checking the health of the user, A walk calculation unit for detecting the vibration generated when the user carrying the terminal walking or running and counting the detected vibration signal as the number of walks and an exercise time calculation unit for counting the exercise time of the user jogging, running, jumping rope Momentum detection means comprising; A calorie data storage unit for storing a look-up table of data on calories burned according to the exercise amount; Food calorie data storage unit for storing a look-up table of the data of the various types of food and the calories of the various food; A microprocessor configured to query the calorie data storage and calculate a calorie consumption proportionally according to the exercise amount; A display unit which displays the exercise amount and the calories burned calculated by the microprocessor; And Biorhythm providing unit for providing the biorhythm of the user according to the user's request A mobile terminal having a health check function comprising a. delete delete The method of claim 1, The terminal is a mobile terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a hand-held computer (Hand-held Computer) characterized in that the portable terminal having a health check function. The method of claim 1, The calorie consumption data storage unit is a portable terminal having a health check function, characterized in that the basic data about the calorie consumption for the number of walking, the calorie consumption for the exercise time is stored. delete delete The method of claim 1, And the terminal provides a biorhythm of the user according to the user's request. In a method for checking the amount of exercise and calories burned in a terminal including a walking calculator and exercise time calculator, (a) receiving an exercise type selection signal from a user carrying the terminal and checking the exercise amount of the user based on the exercise type selection signal; (b) calculating calories burned for the exercise amount; (c) displaying the checked exercise amount and the calculated calories burned on a screen of the terminal; And (d) providing a biorhythm of the user according to the user's request If the exercise selected in step (a) is a walk check the number of walks through the walk calculation unit, and if the exercise selected in step (a) is one of rope skipping, jogging, running through the exercise time calculation unit Step to check exercise time Health check method of a user using a terminal comprising a. The method of claim 9, In the step (a), the exercise amount is a health check method of a user using a terminal, characterized in that the number of walking of the user is checked by the walking calculator when the user walks or runs. The method of claim 9, In the step (a), the exercise amount is a user's health check method using a terminal, characterized in that the exercise time checked by the exercise time calculator when the user jogging, running or skipping exercise. The method of claim 9, In the step (b), the calorie consumption is calculated by referring to the lookup table of the data on the calorie consumption consumed by each of the exercise, the user's health check method using a terminal. delete delete delete delete delete